Titanolabis
Titanolabis colossea
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Titanolabis

Burr, 1910
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Titanolabis is a genus of earwigs in the subfamily Anisolabidinae (though formerly in its own subfamily).[1] It was cited by Srivastava in Part 2 of Fauna of India.[2] Among its species is the Australian T. colossea, which at about 5 cm (2.0 in) long is the largest certainly living species of earwig (the even larger Saint Helena earwig, Labidura herculeana, is generally considered extinct).[3]

Species

The genus includes the following species:[4]

  • Titanolabis bormansi Srivastava, 1983
  • Titanolabis centaurea Steinmann, 1985
  • Titanolabis colossea (Dohrn, 1864)
  • Titanolabis gigas Steinmann, 1989

References

  1. See first entry in external links section for reference.
  2. Srivastava. Fauna of India, Pt. 2.
  3. Flindt, R. (2006). Amazing Numbers in Biology. Springer. p. 10. ISBN 978-3-540-30146-2.
  4. "Genus Titanolabis Burr, 1910". Australian Government Department of Environment and Energy. Retrieved 1 March 2017.


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